George Gabriel Stokes to Faraday   7 April 1856

Pembroke College Cambridge | April 7, 1856

My dear Sir,

In looking over the proof of your paper for the Phil. Trans.¹ one or two things struck me as needing alteration, but as I always like to have the author’s sanction for such things I return you the proof to look at. Please return it to Messrs Taylor & Francis as soon as you conveniently may. The following are my observations. Art 3371. One alteration frequently involves another which the alterer does not perceive because his attention is directed elsewhere. The “if” was formerly understood after “production” being expressed after “effects” but now the “if” is cut out. Would you like the sentence to read “To shut out currents of air as much as possible, and prevent their production”?

<-> Foot note to p.8. I presume varnish should be varnished.

<-> Foot note p.10. I have inserted “vol p.”.

<-> Art 3396 l.5 “they” qy “it”? i.e. the fluid.

<-> Art 3397 last line qy ^ an

<-> Art 3399 l.3 abstracted or subtracted?

<-> P. 14. l.1. Would “abundantly large enough” be better?

<-> Art 3426. l.5. from end. As the sentence stands “it” would refer to “change”. I suppose what is meant is at high temperatures the body loses more or less of it.

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The queries at 3399 (end) and 3429 refer to a matter of taste.

I am dear Sir | Yours very truly | G.G. Stokes

Profr Faraday | &c &c &c